Apparatus for solving equations.



J. NOWAK. APPARATUS FOR SOLVING EQUATIONS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV, 29, 1910.-

1,070,8 35, Patented Aug.19, 1913.

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.ros'nr NowA-x, or MUNICH, GERMANY.'

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Application led November 29, 1910. 'Serial No. 594,761.

To all/whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnr NowAx, a subject 'of the German Emperor, and residing at Munich, Germany, have invented cert-ain .new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Solving Equations, of which the fdllowing is a specification.

The subject-matter of my invention is apparatiis for solving equations having any number of unknown quantities.

and Fig. 3 a horizontal section taken on th line A-B in Fig. 1.

I will explain the drawing in th/e following manner: All linear equations may be brought into the form:

. a2w+b2y+02z :n

aawcibsy'icaz f :o 4 The terms of these equations forming a vertical row, 7'.. e.:

or bly bay and so on, may be designated as columns, and I provide a shaft I, II, III foreach column. Fast on the shaft are bevel-gears ai: (L2: as: b1: bei be, 01a 02 037 which respec' tivelyA drive the axles 1, 2, 3 .79. The

I gears are so selected that the ratios of transmission of shaft I to axle 1,shaft I to axle 2, shaft I to axle 3, and shaft II to axle 4,

" shaft II to axle 5, and so on, correspond to p 'Faston the known `valules'of the columns, z'. e. al, a2, 113,61', b,... c3. 1.

the axles 1, 2 9 are spur-gears f1, f2, fas each having definite number of teeth, meshing directly o r indirectly with diiferential gears D1, Dz l)a driving axles 10, 11,12.

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My apparatus operates as follows: Assuming that the values m, y, a, t'. e'. the numbers of revolutions of the shafts I, II, IiII areknown, the axle l will rotate :nal revolutions, the axle 2 will rotate ma, revolutions, and so on up-to the axle 9 rotating 2.03 revolutions. The products anal, ma, .2.03 are transmitted by the spur-gears dl, dzf. f3. to the differential gears D1, D2 D6 and added by thesev in known manner. vThe numbers of revolutions of the axles 10, 411,

12 drivenby the diderential gears represent theabsolute values m, n, 0 of the equations.

lReversely, the values m, y, .e vare obtained when the shafts 10, 11, 12 are rotated corresponding to the values m, n, 0. The absolute values m, n, o can be set and the members ai, y, e read oi very simply by means of scales and pointers or by counting 'mecha, nism.

.Instead of gears, friction wheels, disks and the like may be employed. Also the addition can be brought about by other well- Y known means instead of by differential gears, and in order to -be able readily to vary the knowncoeiiicients, cone-wheels or other kno-wn means for varying the ratio of transmission may be employed.

' My apparatus is particularly'suitable rfor .calculating the currents and voltages in systenis of conductors for supplying electricity.V In such systems there are as many unknown quantities and equations as there are points of junction, and as the system of a large town contains several hundred such points, the 'calculation is exceedingly laborious, panticularly as the work increases almost as the square of the number of points of junction. These equations have the form:

i"e1g11 e2g12'6agi3:z 1 eig2i'i"e2g22e3g2s:7j2 eig31"e2g32`iesgs3:z3 u and so on. In these equations, the values e1, e2', e, designate the voltages at the points of junction; gm g1', the electrical conductivity of the Jfeeders; i1, 2, 3 the currents at .the points'of junction.

Now inrexisting electricity works it 1s constantly necessary to investigate the 1niuence of a new load, 1'.. e. a change ofthe values zi, 2, z', and so on. In electricity Works the values gm gm, 9,3 .l-remaiii constant. .Consequently they*I can be represented by noii-changing means, such as gears and thelike, whereas `the variables,

e. g. the currents, are represented by a readily `variable means, in the present case the number of revolutions, so that my invention differs in a very important respect from known machines for solving equations.

It is particularly to be observed that the various values of the current between the points of junction, c. g. the algebraic suni @1g12-e2, gm can be ascertained similarly with the saine machine. l 7

1.. An apparatus for solving equations, comprising a plurality of driving shafts; a plurality of driven shafts each divided into a plurality of sections; a. differential between the respect-ive adjacent sections of eachv driven shaft; connections for communicating rotation between each driving shaft and a section respectively of each drive-n shaft; and connections for communicating rotation from each of the remainder of the -driving shafts` to each corresponding differential of each respective driven shaft.

2. An apparatus forl solving equations, comprising a plurality of driving shafts; a pluralityof driven Shafts each divided into a plurality of sections; a differential between the respective adjacent sections of each driven shaft; connections for communicating rotation between each driving shaft and a section respectively of each driven shaft.; and connections for communicating rotation from each of the remainder of the driving shafts to each corresponding differential otl each vrespective driven shaft, the driving ratios of the respective connect-ions of each shaft being different. M

3. n apparatusfor solving equations comprising three driving shafts; three driven shafts, each divided into three sections; a diiferential between the respective adjacent sections of each driven shaft; and -a bevel gear connection between a driving vshaft and a section ilespectively of each driven shaft, and between a driving shaft and each corresponding differential of each driving shaft, tl'e ratios of the gear connections of each driving shaft being diiferent.

Jos-EF NOWAK.

Witnesses: A. V. W. Co'r'lER,

MATHILDE K. HELD. 

